All posts tagged "Hampton NH"
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7.2K1MassachusettsHow New England Invented Grandparents
If you wanted to know your grandparents or grandchildren back in the 17th and 18th centuries, your best bet was to live...
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11.8K5New HampshireFame, Fortune, Fire and Brimstone: The Legend of Jonathan Moulton
In 1763, Jonathan Moulton of Hampton, N.H. took his prize oxen north to Portsmouth, N.H. The impressive animal, weighing 1,400 pounds, was...
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8.1K6Connecticut6 New Deal Projects Still in Use
The New Deal put tens of millions of people to work and changed the landscape in every New England city and town....
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30.3K3New HampshireJane Pierce, New Hampshire’s Unlikely First Lady
In January of 1856, a radical physician from Massachusetts, Charles Robinson, won election as governor of Kansas. President Franklin Pierce declared him...
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8.4K4Business and LaborSecrets to a Long Life From Holders of The Boston Post Cane
When the Town of Westmoreland, N.H., gave its Boston Post Cane to 113-year-old Mary Ray in 2008, she was believed to be...
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24.5K1MassachusettsThe Cold Friday of 1810
The legendary Cold Friday of 1810 brought such terrible winds and frigid temperature that people talked and wrote about it for generations....
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29.2K22New HampshireEdward Gove and His One-Man Revolution of 1683
What if you started a revolution and nobody came? New Hampshire’s Edward Gove found out in 1683 – and the answer is...
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2.8KArts and LeisureDr. Alexander Hamilton Pokes Fun at a Rustic
Dr. Alexander Hamilton had some fun at the expense of a nosy New Englander named Jerry Jacobs who accompanied him on his trip...
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16.5K6ConnecticutThe New England Dark Day of 1780
The New England Dark Day was the darkest day of the American Revolution – a day as dark as night, a day...
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12.9K49MassachusettsRemembering the Great Snow of 1717 in New England
The worst winter ever in New England was probably not 2015, but 1717, when staggering amounts of snow fell in what became...
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